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Example sentences for "sprang forward"

  • With that he sprang forward; in a minute he was in the midst of the group, that parted aside with the most obliging complacency to make way for him.

  • In this pause of embarrassment to both, Riccabocca let himself into the garden by his own latch-key, and, startled to see a man by the side of Violante, sprang forward with an abrupt and angry cry.

  • She uttered a cry, sprang forward, and then sank down, covering her face with her hands.

  • He sprang forward, open-jawed,--and stopped short when his fangs were just within an inch or two of those bristling and defiant points.

  • He sprang forward, a powerful but clumsy stride, careless of his footing.

  • His heart leapt, his eyes flamed, and he sprang forward, with a little cry, as a young beast might in sighting its first quarry.

  • At these words Javis, who had stood with a stern glance regarding the Baron, sprang forward in spite of his fettered hands.

  • Ina then entered the anderoon, when Zara, throwing aside the embroidery she was engaged on, sprang forward to meet her.

  • Then the women saw also and sprang forward with a cry of joy, saying: "So you live--you live!

  • Wulf heard, and, as Lozelle drew near to them, sprang forward with an oath and struck him across the face with his mailed hand.

  • The whip fell smartly on her horse's quarters, and it sprang forward.

  • Their plaything leapt and dropped, sprang forward, and lingered like a thing of life.

  • I had barely time to see this much, when the figure beside the bed sprang forward, and in a low but menacing tone, addressed M'Keown.

  • Mr Harvey, seizing an axe and calling on us to follow and assist in clearing away the wreck before more damage was done, sprang forward.

  • I sprang forward, and putting out my hand, he took it and looked up in my face.

  • I sprang forward and, brushing past old Jerry, rushed into the house.

  • A bare word of greeting passed between us, for Noah, seeing Vetch helpless in my grasp, sprang forward with a shout of savage joy and but for my intervention would have plunged his knife into the wretched man.

  • We sprang forward at the double, and coming in sight of the house, I saw with relief that it was yet intact, the smoke arising from the outbuildings, which were already almost burned to the ground.

  • I sprang forward, but before I could vault over the obstructing table Vetch had dashed through a door behind him that opened on to the veranda.

  • Frontispiece: "In another moment Wyllard's last doubt vanished, and he sprang forward with a gasp.

  • In another moment Wyllard's last doubt vanished, and he sprang forward with a gasp.

  • We sprang forward to dash in the nearest windows, to batter down the nearest doors.

  • I keenly remembered; and Xavier, his face aglow in the firelight, sprang forward to grasp my hand.

  • At thought of further perils threatening Mizpah and Marc, the weariness which had been growing upon me vanished, and I sprang forward as briskly as if we had but just set out.

  • The instant Mary Warren left the piazza on her pious errand, I sprang forward to follow her with an impulse I could not control.

  • Clubbing the piece, I sprang forward, and felled the foremost of the two with a sharp blow on his hat.

  • I sprang forward to speak to her, and then became rooted to the ground.

  • The next moment I sprang forward, and as I turned the angle of the walk beheld--with what relief of heart!

  • I sprang forward to the window and cried out, 'Louisa!

  • If so, they should not be without a leader--and with that thought he sprang forward.

  • Again, with the hunger madness of a wild beast, I sprang forward to seize those tempting dishes; but, as before, the light went out and I came to a sudden stop against a hard wall.

  • With a cry of horror I sprang forward in a vain attempt to save the life that for two years I would so gladly have seen extinguished.

  • Kent-Lauriston was the first to recognise him, and seeing at a glance that his clothes were torn and spotted with blood, he sprang forward to assist his friend and helped him into the hall.

  • All the glamour by which I had been bound, forsook me; and I sprang forward in scorn, above the fear of the dead men's bones.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprang forward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute reality; because that; calcium phosphate; class passengers; even with; fatal result; had picked; half calf; half times; heart seemed; high character; indeed they; long struggle; mental philosophy; millionth part; much labour; native copper; speech and; sprang forward; sprang from; then serve; thoughtful voice; vast concourse